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A series of eight programmes devoted to the Latin church music of the great Tudor composers, each one including a setting of the Mass, as well as organ music of the period, played by THURSTON DART and others, and some shorter liturgical pieces: Antiphons, Responds and Motets.
Today's programme includes:
Fayrfax Mass: Tecum Principium: AMBROSIAN SINGERS directed by DENIS STEVENS gramophone records

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Introduced by Michael Oliver
The Thieving Magpie: Rossini's opera, introduced by RICHARD OSBORNE.
The Instrument Makers - 1: JULIAN CLARK , craftsman in medieval, renaissance and baroque bows.
A Musician for all Seasons: CALLUM MCDONALD assesses the astonishingly diverse output of the English composer John Foulds , who died in Calcutta in 1939. Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK

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And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
(Jaques in As You Like It)
A selection of poems on Jaques's theme, presented by ANTHONY THWAITE and read by GARY WATSON. 2: Childhood Producer FRASER STEEL
BBC Manchester

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1942-1976
'David Munrow did not just emerge into the field of medieval and renaissance music - he exploded into it .. He established a standard that can now never be ignored, and the stimulating shockwaves from his explosion will carry far into the future.'
(SIR ANTHONY LEWIS )
When he died in 1976. David Munrow was only 33 years old, yet within the span of a decade he had widened the musical horizons of millions by his concerts, records, writings and broadcasts. Whether directing the Early Music Consort of London or introducing Radio 3's Pied Piper he radiated an intense enthusiasm which could leave his colleagues just as often exhausted as exhilarated.
Michael Oliver presents this award-winning portrait of a dynamic and sometimes controversial personality, with impressions and assessments from PROFESSOR WILLIS GRANT, BILL ODDIE , A. G. ELLIOTT-SMITH (former Principal of Markham College, Lima, Peru), MEREDITH DEWEY (former Dean of Pembroke College, Cambridge), CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD , GUY WOOL-FENDEN, JAMES BOWMAN , JASPER PARROTT , JOHN WILLAN and PROFESSOR ROBERT DONINGTON.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

Christianity and the World Order
The Rev Dr Edward Norman , Dean of Peterhouse. Cambridge. begins his series of six talks. 1: The Political Christ Dr Norman takes issue with those who are reinterpreting Christianity as a scheme of social and political action. He argues that in their death agonies the western Churches are distributing the causes of their sickness - the politicisation of religion - to their healthy offspring in the developing world. The politicisation of Christianity in the western world takes the form of identifying Christian teachings with the moral outlook and political ideas of liberalism. Are there distinctly Christian reasons for regarding its principles as more compatible with the teachings of Christ than other and rival political outlooks?

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David Lumsdaine Aria for Edward John Eyre
JANE MANNING (soprano) JOHN BADDELEY (narrator) JOHN RYE (narrator)
BARRY GUY (double-bass) LONDON SINFONIETTA conducted by ELGAR HOWARTH
(Part of a BBC concert at the University of Liverpool in January 1973 for which this work was commissioned)

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The Grunstein Variation by WOLFGANG KOHLHAASE translated by ROBERT BRYCE
This sensitive study of three men in prison is by one of the GDR'S most distinguished writers The original East German production of the play won the 1977 Italia Prize for radio drama.
Directed bv BERNARD KRICHEFSKI

direct from the Theatre Royal Comic opera in two acts Music by Smetana
Libretto by EMANUEL ZÛNGEL adapted from Les Deux Veuves by FEI .ICIEN MALLEFILLE i sung in the English translation by DAVID POUNTNEY )
WEXFORD FESTIVAL CHORUS chorus-master ALAN CUTTS RTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader COLIN STAVELEY conducted by ALBERT ROSEN

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The art historian and controversial curator of 20th-century Art at New York's Metropolitan Museum. Henry Geldzahler was appointed Cultural Affairs Commissioner for New York by the incoming Mayor, and in conversation with PHILIP FRENCH he discusses the nature of this newly created post, the problems of financing cultural activities in America, and the special role of the arts in New York life.

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